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• All's fair in competition? FTC relies on insurer complaints over price increasesto buttress first challenge of hospital merger after the fact.

  - 2004-02-16

  Byline: Mark Taylor The rift between healthcare providers and payers widened last week when the Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust complaint against a prominent suburban Chicago health system. In its 12-page administrative complaint-the FTC's first hospital merger challenge in six...

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• United HealthCare to Exit Chicago-Area Medicare HMO.

  - 2001-09-19

  By Bruce Japsen, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 19--The state's second-largest managed-care plan confirmed plans Tuesday to pull out of the Medicare program in Cook County, a move that will leave more than 33,000 seniors without some free and low-cost health...

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• Two Chicago Medical-Care Giants Reach Deadlock over Payment Rates.

  - 2001-07-26

  By Bruce Japsen, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 26--In a snapshot of the growing struggles of managed-care nationwide, two Chicago medical-care giants have reached an impasse that could disrupt health insurance coverage for tens of thousands of area residents....

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• United HealthCare of Illinois Fails to Reach Deal with Hospital Network.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-12-08

  Dec. 8--Nearly 900,000 Illinois residents will have to pay more for their health care if they want continued treatment at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago and four of its affiliate hospitals because their insurer and the health-care system cannot come to terms on a...

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• NEW CHIEF SEEKS TO HEAL UNITED HEALTHCARE: FIRST PRIORITY: REPAIR DOC RELATIONS.

  - 1999-04-26

  United HealthCare of Illinois Inc., long struggling to improve its battered reputation in the Chicago health care market, is betting on a young outsider to shore up relations with hospitals and physicians. William P. Whitely, 34 -- a consultant with Andersen Consulting's Chicago office...

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• United HealthCare of Illinois introduces unique, no-referral managed care plan; 'Open Access' gives consumers more choice

  - 1996-07-09

  CHICAGO--BUSINESS WIRE--July 9, 1996--United HealthCare of Illinois, Inc. today announced the introduction of Open Access, the first no-referral managed care plan of its kind in Illinois. Open Access, available to Chicago-area businesses on Aug. 1, 1996, is an innovative plan that gives members the option of going directly to...

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• United HMO gets an overhaul. (United HealthCare of Illinois Inc.)

  - 1996-06-10

  Local rivals hope to profit from fallout Marshall V. Rozzi is performing radical surgery on the area's leading operator of health maintenance organizations. Mr. Rozzi, who was hired last fall to head United HealthCare of Illinois Inc. UHI, is suturing three HMOs into one, jettisoning ...

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